巴結

to fawn on / to curry favor with / to make up to

Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) / abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing / surname Ba / abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian / abbr. for Pakistan

to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

(of a plant) to produce (fruit or seeds) / Taiwan pr. [jie2]

knot / sturdy / bond / to tie / to bind / to check out (of a hotel)

lymphatic node / lymph gland

to manage with difficulty / only just getting by / in a difficult position

to flatter someone in a hundred different ways / assiduous fawning (idiom)